Quotes About Maturity

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

Ah, you begin to acquire wisdom,' said Sprag. 'Irritation is one of the first signs.

All of us long for success throughout our lives, but we should long to see greater significance later in life and not see it wasted on our younger years. Success, in and of itself, is a heavy burden to bear; to bear it without a firm foundation of maturity and strong character can lead to great personal destruction. I

The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.

but sometimes you can go along, years even, and not feel like you're growing up at all, and then there's times when you age a ton, like, in a couple 'a seconds, you know?

What a great and happy place the world was! But you had to be big and grown-up before you could do just what you liked.

Our youth must be shown that not all worthwhile things are instantly accessible and that there are levels of sensibility unknown to them.

But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

experience was not yet my friend

I think we believed that what we'd achieved acamically was akin to growing up, rather than something we might have done in place of it.

Charlie and I both felt very adult that last year of college, very experienced: I think we believed that what we'd achieved academically was akin to growing up, rather than something we might have done in place of it.

Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgement, not till he's shown his colors, run the people, making laws. Experience, there's the test.

Any boy seems, nowadays, a tried and wicked 47 years old dwarf.

when she was a young woman she valued intelligence over all other human attributes. Now that she was older she valued kindness.

To build calls for hard work, From the one who looks to tomorrow. To destroy is easy work, For one who wants to return to yesterday, Like a grown person wishing to remain a child.

I'd rather be called a boy and play with paper airplanes than be called a man and play with a girl's heart.

Having to be sober was like being a forty-year-old trapped in a young adult's body. How could I relate to any of my peers? It was like I'd come from a totally different planet.

But as the web matured during the late 1990s, the dreams of a digital awakening went unfulfilled. The net turned out to be more about commerce than consciousness, more mall than commune. And when the new millennium arrived, it brought not a new age but a dispiritingly commonplace popping of a bubble of earthly greed.

one is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feeble, and by one's passions, which seem such a bore - all but the consuming desire for knowledge and understanding. That grows. - Aldous Huxley

one is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feebler, and by one's passions, which seems such a bore - all but the consuming desire for knowledge and understanding. That grows. - Aldous Huxley

It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.

There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find.

Mom says it's because she has PMS. Do you even know what that means? "I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome

It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.